After guiding and supporting our Fellows throughout the Ashoka Globalizer Program, our social entrepreneurs spread their impact more broadly and efficiently by fostering a systemic and frame change. The social entrepreneurs participating in the program were able to reflect on the strategies and the leadership skills and to generate widespread impact in a world characterized by constant change.
Systems Change in a Polarized Country
A growing number of US foundations are adopting practices based on systems change to achieve their goals in the current political environment. More than one year ago, well before the November US Presidential election, I set out to interview the CEOs of nearly two dozen leading US foundations to...
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EspeRare gains rights to relaunch late stage development for XLHED
Caroline Kant - participating Ashoka fellow to 2016 Health and Lighting Globalizer Program - annouced this week a pivotal partnership between EspeRare and Edimer Pharmaceuticals Inc. Caroline as founder and CEO of EspeRare conveyed this successful partnership as an essential opportunity to continue...
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Hilmi Quraishi shares his story with the Hindu Business Line
Hilmi Quraishi - Ashoka Fellow participating in the 2018 Globalizer on Accelerating Healthcare Access - founded ZMQ in 1999 in India. This software development system uses modern mobile technology to spread accessible healthcare messages to the population. The idea was developed to tackle HIV/AIDS...
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Gastromotiva receives $1.5 to build the Social Gastronomy Movement
With an emphasis on culinary skills, David Hertz - Ashoka Fellow from 2011 - offers a program for personal and professional development among marginalized young people from the favelas, enabling them to join the working world and even become entrepreneurs in their communities. Gastromotiva uses the...
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Experiences in Scaling Up Impact
Scaling up impact without scaling up the size of an organization